Clothes drier



E. McNElLL. CLOTHES DRIER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 13, 1921.

1,409,877. Patented Mar- 14, 1922.

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EDWARD, MIGNEILL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES. DRIER Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented DIRT. 14, 1922.

Application filed September 13, 1921. Serial No. 500,281.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD MoNnrLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes Driers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes driers and the principal object is to produce a device of this nature which may be compact enough for use in flats and small apartments.

Another object is to provide a device of this nature consisting of few parts, simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and efficient for performing the work required of it. 4

Another object is to provide a device of this nature with simple and eflicient means for catching and disposing of the superfluous water which may drip from the clothes in drying.

Other objects will appear in the following description and be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

To this end the invention consists of certain novel construction and combination of parts which will now be set forth and which are fully illustrated in the accompanying drawing comprising one sheet, in which Figure 1 is a front view of my improved clothes drier.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view on line 22 of Figure 1.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in both views.

This invention contemplates the providing of a device for drying clothes which consists of a metal cabinet having a gas burner below a metal floor plate and provided with one or more slides having slats adapted to hold the clothes to be dried.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 represents the main frame-work which may be of angle-iron perforated to receive bolts or rivets 2. Secured to the angle-iron 1 by bolts 2 are the sides 3, back 1 and top 5. A door 6 is provided at the front of the device and the whole is supported upon legs 7. Suitable ventilating apertures 8 are provided in the sides, back, top and door.

A gas burner 9 is mounted in the lower part of the structure and is connected with a supply pipe 10, which pipe maybe connected with the supply pipe of a range in the kitchen or in any other way joined to the gas main. Secured to the frame-work above the burner 9 is a floor plate 11 which slopes slightly toward the rear and is proyided near its rear end with a hole or holes in which are drip pipes 12. Secured to the frame-work below the burner is a drip plate 13 adapted to catch the drip from the pipe orplpes 12 and sloping toward the front of the device where it is provided with a duct or ducts 14 which will direct the water into a pan 15. It might beremarked at this point, that the top 5 also slopes slightly toward the rear so that the top 5 and floor 11 are run parallel throughout.

Secured to the lower side of the top 5' and to the upper side of the floor 11 and ex tending from front to rear thereof are cleats 16 formin registering grooves. are adapte to be moved in and out of these grooves. with a plurality of slats or cross-bars 18, and with a handle 19 which is secured at the front edge.

The operation of the above described mechanism is as follows The clothes to be dried are hung on slats 18 and the slides 17 are moved into the grooves between cleats 16. The burner 9 is then lighted thereby heating up the drying Slides 17 Each of said slides is provided chamber, the moisture laden air passlng out;

through apertures 8. Any water which may drip from the clothes on to the floor 11 will be caused to move toward the rear of the device, down through drippipes 12 onto plate 13, forward and through ducts-.14: into pan 15.

While I have described what I deem to be the most desirable embodiment of my invention, it is obvious that many of the details are susceptible of minor changes without in any way departing from the spirit of my limit myself to the precise details of construction herein set forth nor to anything less than the whole of my invention limited only by the appended claims.

hat Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is 1. In a clothes drier, the combination of side walls, parallel top and bottom walls arranged at an angle to the horizontal, cleats secured to said top and bottom walls, and slides adapted to be moved into the grooves formed by said cleats.

2. In a clothes drier, the combination with invention; and I therefore do not.

means for supporting clothes to'be dried, S

and :1 pair of plates underlying said means movable means for supporting clothes to be and arranged at an angle to each other and dried, and an angularly disposed drain at an angle to the-horizontal asancl for the plate, substantially as and for the purpose 1.0 purpose set forth. i set forth.

3. In a clothes drier, the combination of V In testimony whereof I have afiixed my a drying chamber having ventilating aperign ure. tures, means for heating said chamber, re- EDWARD MONEILL. 

